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HYDROLOGY, OCEANOGRAPHY
GB400 9781439872000
Mathematical morphology in geomorphology and
GISci.
Daya, B. S. Sagar.
CRC Press, 2013 516 p. $99.95
The vast data on terrestrial phenomena at
spatial and temporal intervals now available
in various formats is posing problems for
the informatics of earth and environmental
sciences, says Sagar (systems science and
informatics, Indian Statistical Institute,
Bangalore). He shows how mathematical
morphology could be used to deal with the
quantitative morphologic and scaling analyses
of terrestrial phenomena and processes.
After introducing mathematical morphology
as an advanced spatial statistical tool that is
popular in image processing and analysis, he
discusses such topics as feature extraction,
morphological shape decompostions,
directional spatial relationship, and spatial
interpolations.
ANTHROPOLOGY
GN347 9781598744897
Participatory visual and digital methods.
Gubrium, Aline and Krista Harper. (Developing
qualitative inquiry; 10)
Left Coast Press, Inc., 2013 227 p. $34.95
(pa)
The authors (both of the U. of Massachusetts)
write that new methodologies such as digital
storytelling and participatory digital archiving,
are changing the ways that social scientists
conduct research are opening up new
possibilities for participatory approaches that
appeal to diverse audiences and reposition
participants as co-producers of knowledge and
potentially as co-researchers, particularly in
their own fields of public health and applied
anthropology. In this volume, they introduce
anthropologists and other social researchers
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SCIENCE (GENERAL)
Q180 9781849201803
An introduction to systematic reviews.
Title main entry. Ed. by David Gough, Sandy
Oliver and James Thomas.
Sage , 2012 288 p. $100.00
Researchers at the Evidence for Policy and
Practice Information and co-ordinating
Centre (the EPPI-Centre) at the Institute of
Education in London share what they learned
between 1993 and 2011 about conducting
systematic reviews of the literature in the
social and human sciences. The topics include
stakeholder perspectives and participation in
reviews, getting started with a review, finding
relevant studies, describing and analyzing
studies, combining results systematically and
appropriately, and making a difference with
systematic reviews.
Q183 9781439881392
Data-intensive science.
Title main entry. Ed. by Terence Critchlow and
Kerstin Kleese van Dam. (Chapman & Hall/
CRC computational science series)
CRC Press, 2013 420 p. $89.95
Specialists in managing scientific data--many
of them at Emory Universitys biomedical
informatics department in Atlanta, but others
from across the US and Europe--begin by
explaining what data-intensive science is
and where all the data comes from. Then
they consider data-intensive grand challenge
science problems, case studies, and from
challenges to solutions. Among the topics are
large-scale microscopy imaging analytics for
in silico biomedicine, materials from business
suits to space suits, data-intensive production
grids, transforming data into the appropriate
context, and analyzing exploration data in situ
for scientific discovery.
Q183 9780769549347
Symbolic and numeric algorithms for scientific
computing; proceedings.
International Symposium on Symbolic and
Numberic Algorithms for Scientific Computing
(14th: 2012: Timisoara, Romania) Ed by
Andrei Voronkov, Viorel Negru, Tetsuo Ida,
Tudor Jebelean et al.
Computer Society Press, 2012 524 p.
$231.00 (pa)
The annual symposium is designed to
stimulate the interaction between the symbolic
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QA76.9 9781597497336
Augmented reality; an emerging technologies
guide to AR.
Kipper, Greg and Joseph Rampolla.
Syngress Media, Inc., 2013 158 p. $49.95
(pa)
Kipper (futurist, author, and emerging
technologies strategic forecaster) and
Rampolla (law enforcement officer, speaker,
cyber crime consultant) explain what
augmented reality (AR) is, how it can be used
in a variety of industries and applications, and
concepts for new applications in business and
crime-fighting. Subjects discussed include
types of AR, value of AR in several fields (such
as military and public safety), and innovators
and organizations. Syngress Media is an
imprint of Elsevier.
QA76.9 9781439877302
The complete book of data anonymization; from
planning to implementation.
Raghunathan, Balaji. (Infosys press)
CRC Press, 2013 247 p. $79.95
A software architect and information manager
with an Indian business support company,
Raghunathan describes the theory and
procedures of separating personal information
from the person in computer systems, so it
cannot be used for illicit purposes. He provides
a guide first for data anonymization program
sponsors and then for practitioners. Among
the topics are an enterprise data privacy
governance model, the different phases
of a program, tools and technology, data
anonymization patterns, data flow patterns
across environments, and implementing data
anonymization.
QA76.9 9781845647087
Data management and security; applications in
medicine, science and engineering.
Title main entry. Ed. by A. Rabasa, C.A.
Brebbia, and A. Bia. (WIT Transactions on
information and communications technology;
v.45)
WIT Press, 2013 243 p. $220.00
The First International Conference on Data
Management and Security: Applications in
Medicine, Sciences and Engineering was
held in Elche, Spain. The 21 papers in
the proceedings cover coding theory and
cryptography applications, encryption, data
management, statistical processing and
data mining to solve real problems, and
applications in medicine. Among specific topics
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CHEMISTRY
QD341 9783527332588
Graphene; synthesis, properties, and
phenomena.
Title main entry. Ed. by C.N.R. Rao and Ajay
K. Sood.
Wiley-VCH, 2013 416 p. $170.00
Materials scientists, chemists, and physicists
survey some of the salient aspects of singlelayer or few-layer graphene and a few
graphene-like inorganic layered materials that
are of current interest. Among the topics are
investigating graphene with Raman scattering,
the physics of quanta and quantum fields in
graphene, suspected graphene devices for
nanoelectromechanics of and for studying the
quantum Hall effect, a detailed computational
study of electronic and magnetic properties
of patterned nanoribbons, heterogeneous
catalysis by metal nanoparticles supported on
graphene, and biomedical applications. The
anthology could introduce students, teachers,
and researchers to the recently discovered
form of carbon.
QD382 9783527331437
Conjugated polyelectrolytes; fundamentals and
applications.
Title main entry. Ed. by Bin Liu and Guillermo
C. Bazan.
Wiley-VCH, 2013 418 p. $165.00
A unique combination of physical properties
and their recent role as key elements
in emerging technologies have brought
conjugated polyelectrolytes to the attention
of scientists. This is the first volume devoted
to the fundamentals and applications of the
broad class of materials. Chemists and nuclear
engineers consider such aspects as their
design and synthesis, ionically functionalized
polyacetylenes, sensing applications
using energy transfer from conjugated
polyelectrolytes, biocide applications, imaging
and monitoring protein aggregation using
conjugated polyelectrolytes, and organic
optoelectronic devices containing water/
alcohol-soluble conjugated polymers and
conjugated polyelectrolytes.
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MEDICINE (GENERAL)
R855 9781439848036
Imaging in cellular and tissue engineering.
Title main entry. Ed. by Hanry Yu and Nur Aida
Abdul Rahim. (Series in cellular and clinical
imaging)
CRC Press, 2013 262 p. $149.95
Physicists, electronic and biochemical
engineers, and other contributors describe
how imaging is used in specific application of
cellular and tissue engineering. Their topics
include confocal microscopy for high-content
cellular screening, magnetic resonance
imaging to monitor implanted constructs,
applying imaging technologies to stemcell tracking in vivo, imaging therapeutic
processes in animals using optical reporter
genes, and image analysis for cellular and
tissue engineering.
R857 9780857090171
Biomaterials and medical tribology; research and
development.
Title main entry. Ed. by J. Paulo Davim.
(Woodhead Publishing series in biomaterials;
no.65)
Woodhead Publishing, 2013 459 p.
$270.00
Contributors mostly from the physical
sciences and engineering, but also a few from
medical sciences, explore medical tribology,
which studies the design, friction, wear, and
lubrication of sliding and frictional interfaces
in the human body, with a particular focus
on implants. The book can be used in a
senior undergraduate engineering course
or in a graduate course on biomaterials
and medical tribology. The topics include
synergism effects during friction and fretting
corrosion experiments on biomaterials used
as orthopedic implants, applying biomedicalgrade titanium alloys in trabecular bone
and artificial joints, determining wear on a
retrieved metal-on-metal hip arthroplasty with
an example of extreme wear, the importance
of bearing porosity in engineering and natural
lubricants, and the tribological characterization
of human tooth enamel.
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R857 9781118140420
Micro and nanotechnologies in engineering
stems cells and tissues.
Title main entry. Ed. by Murugan Ramalingam,
Esmaiel Jabbari, Seeram Ramakrishna and Ali
Khademhosseini.
IEEE/Wiley, 2013 306 p. $149.95
Biological and chemical engineers, materials
scientists, and other researchers provide a
snapshot of the current state of technologies
at the micrometer and nanometer scales
being used to design novel materials that
display the complex cell-cell and cell-matrix
interactions that are the basis of building new
body parts by assembling basic biological
components. The topics include stem cells
and nanotechnology in tissue engineering and
regenerative medicine, micro-engineering
and nano-engineering approaches to
developing gradient biomaterials suitable
for interface tissue engineering, integrating
top-down and bottom-up scaffolding tissue
engineering approaches for bone regeneration,
characterizing the adhesive interactions
between cells and biomaterials, vascular
tissue engineering, and applying stem cells in
ischemic heart disease.
R858 9780323100953
Health informatics; an interprofessional
approach. (online access included)
Nelson, Ramona and Nancy Staggers.
Elsevier Mosby, 2014 535 p. $72.95 (pa)
Nelson (nursing, Slippery Rock U.) and
Staggers (informatics, U. of Maryland) bring
together nurses and informatics specialists
mainly from the US for this textbook on health
informatics for advanced undergraduate and
graduate students in various health disciplines.
In 31 chapters, they describe the history of
the field, terms and definitions, theories,
models, conceptual frameworks, evidencebased practice, practice-based evidence,
and program evaluation; the major areas of
healthcare practice, related applications, and
supporting technical infrastructure, including
electronic health records, telehealth, home
health, clinical decision support, and public
health informatics; e-patient and related
applications or technology, such as social
media and personal health records; leading
informatics-related projects, including policies
and procedures for privacy and security;
quality, usability, and standards; governance
and organizational structures, legal issues,
and health policy; education and informatics,
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RS192 9781907568275
Computer-aided applications in pharmaceutical
technology.
Title main entry. Ed. by Jelena Djuris.
(Woodhead Publishing series in biomedicine;
52)
Woodhead Publishing, 2013 269 p.
$220.00
The contributors explain the basics of
experimental design application and
interpretation used in the development and
evaluation of pharmaceutical products. This
review of numerous current computer-aided
pharmaceutical technology applications
touches on a variety of topics, including:
quality by design in pharmaceutical
development, computer-aided formulation
development, experimental design
application and interpretation, neural
computing in pharmaceutical products
and process development, computational
fluid dynamics applications, and computeraided biopharmaceutical characterization in
gastrointestinal absorption simulation. An
extensive list of abbreviations also is included.
Editor is Djuris (pharmaceutical technology
and cosmetology, U. of Belgrade, Serbia.
TECHNOLOGY (GENERAL)
RS201 9781118148877
Nanoparticulate drug delivery systems;
strategies, technologies, and applications.
Title main entry. Ed. by Yoon Yeo.
Wiley, 2013 312 p. $150.00
Enthusiasm for nanomedicine has grown
exponentially because it addresses critical
problems in delivery of some drugs such
as poor absorption, toxic side effects, and
multiple drug resistance, but challenges
remain in translating novel ideas into
clinical benefits, e.g, the promise of the
active targeting strategy to increase
tumor accumulations of nanoparticles has
not proved to be a magic bullet. In this
state-of-the-art contribution to the field,
Yeo (industrial and physical pharmacy,
biochemical engineering, Purdue U., Indiana)
introduces a dozen chapters reviewing the
latest nanomedicine technologies and their
preclincial evaluation. Following an overview
of targeted nanomedicine, chapters discuss
nanoparticulate drug delivery systems
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T10 9783037856727
Information, communication and engineering.
International Conference on Information,
Communication and Engineering (2012:
Fuzhou, China) Ed. by Teen-Hang Meen.
(Applied mechanics and materials; v.311)
Trans Tech Publications, 2013 567 p.
$206.00 (pa)
The 94 selected papers cover advanced
computer and information science, network,
communication, and virtual system
applications in industry; applied mathematics;
recognition and monitoring technologies;
electrical and electronic engineering,
automation, and applied mechanics
applications; creative and product design,
knowledge innovation in industry; green
technology and architecture engineering;
material science engineering and technology;
medical engineering applications; and
miscellaneous topics. Among specific topics
are the social network service of university
library websites, a fast and smooth carving
algorithm for online three-dimensional
reconstruction, analyzing motion trauma for
human running by motion capture, concept
development in creative product design,
computer simulation of the fractal growth of
semiconductor thin films, and the effects of a
bloggers moral intensity on ethical decision
making.
T55 9781439878200
Hazardous chemicals; safety management and
global regulations.
Dikshith, T.S.S.
CRC Press, 2013 638 p. $149.95
Toxicologist Dikshith has worked extensively
in agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and chemicals
and with government and international
agencies and programs in India and around
the world. Here he provides quick access to
information on the safety management of
chemical substances, and appropriate recent
scientific information for students, workers
in occupations where they might encounter
hazardous chemicals, and scientists who
study such chemicals. Most of the volume
describes safe handling and precautions
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TA418 9780857093448
Non-destructive evaluation (NDE) of polymer
matrix composites; techniques and applications.
Title main entry. Ed. by Vistasp M. Karbhari.
(Woodhead Publishing series in composites
science and engineering; no.43)
Woodhead Publishing, 2013 692 p.
$325.00
Twenty-five contributions address nondestructive evaluation and testing techniques
with regard to monitoring structural health
when polymer matrix composites are part
of the picture, as they are, increasingly.
Coverage encompasses the use of acoustic
emission, eddy current, shearography,
diaelectric measurements, ultrasound,
microwave, fiber optic sensing, and infrared
thermography techniques. Applications
include adhesive bonds, sandwich panels,
delamination defects, aerospace composites,
and civil and marine structures. Karbhari, a
seasoned expert in the field, is president of
the U. of Texas at Arlington.
TA418 9781909030244
Update on carbon fibre.
Bajpai, Pratima.
Smithers Rapra, 2013 145 p. $130.00
Bajpai (chemical and biochemical engineering,
U. of Western Ontario) brings together current
information on the production, properties,
applications, and future of carbon fibers.
She also reviews the status of carbon-fiber
reinforced polymer recycling operations,
focusing on reclamation and re-manufacturing
processes, and on the commercialization and
potential applications of recycled products.
TA455 9781569904602
Nano- and micro-mechanics of polymers;
structure modification and improvement of
properties.
Michler, Goerg H. and Francisco J. BaltCalleja.
Hanser Publications, 2012 566 p. $299.95
Michler (physics, Martin Luther U., Wittenberg,
Germany) and Balt-Calleja (structure
of materials, Spanish National Research
Council--CSIC, Madrid) begin by reviewing
the importance of polymers in materials
science particularly and in the world at large,
and methods and investigating techniques
for studying their structure and dynamics
at very small scales. Then they set out the
general mechanisms of deformation and
fracture, and devote the rest of the volume
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TA492 9783527329045
Testing adhesive joints; best practices.
Title main entry. Ed. by Lucas F.M. da Silva,
David A. Dillard, Bamber Blackman and Robert
D. Adams.
Wiley-VCH, 2012 440 p. $140.00
Mechanical engineers and materials scientists
explore testing joints from the perspectives
of manufacturing quality specimens, quasistatic constitutive and strength tests, quasistatic fracture tests, higher rate and impact
tests, durability, and other test methods.
Among specific topics are preparing thick
adherend shear test specimens, quasi-testing
bulk compression on flat specimens, the pinand-collar test method, the compact mixed
mode fracture test method, testing adhesive
bonds under peel and shear loads at increased
velocities, and measuring time-dependent
crack growth.
TA1634 9780470828120
Selective visual attention; computational models
and applications.
Zhang, Liming and Weisi Lin.
IEEE/Wiley, 2013 332 p. $140.00
Visual attention studies have pass through
the three stages of biological studies,
computational models, and applications, say
Zhang (Fudan U., China) and Lin (Nanyang
Technological U., Singapore), and they follow
the same path as they explain the question
for researchers, engineers, and students of
physics, mathematics, information science,
and computer science. They cover the
background theory and experiments of visual
attention; computational models in the spatial
domain; fast bottom-up computational models
in the spectral domain; computational models
for top-down visual attention; validation
and evaluation for visual attention models;
applications in computer vision, image
retrieval, and robotics; and applying attention
models in image processing.
TA1637 9781848212572
Signal and image multiresolution analysis.
Title main entry. Ed. by Abdeldjalil Ouahabi.
(Digital signal and image processing series)
ISTE/Wiley, 2012 293 p. $145.00
Ouahabi, Jean-Marc Girault (both U. Francois
Rabelais, Tours, France), Rgis Fournier, and
Amine Nat-Ali (both U. Paris-Est Crteil)
provide a simple formalization and new
clarity for the multi-resolution analysis of
signals and images, for industrial engineers,
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TA1770 9783527410569
Advances in acoustic microscopy and
high resolution imaging; from principals to
applications.
Title main entry. Ed. by Roman Gr. Maev.
Wiley-VCH, 2013 381 p. $185.00
Thirteen contributed chapters begin with
the fundamentals, addressing multiwave
imaging to elasticity imaging, and speckle
interferometry and nonlinear methods.
Following is coverage of novel developments in
techniques and methods such as applications
of a quantitative ultrasonic microscope for
soft biological tissues, and portable ultrasonic
imaging devices. Subsequent chapters
address advanced biomedical applications, and
advanced materials applications. Editor Maev
is affiliated with the U. of Windsor Institute
for Diagnostic Imaging Research, Canada;
contributors include a couple of his associates
as well as scientists based around the world.
ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGY
TD430 9781612336190
Nanotechnology for water purification.
Title main entry. Ed. by Tania Dey.
Universal Publishers, 2012 249 p. $69.95
(pa)
This book describes how cutting-edge
nanotechnology can be used to address
todays burning issue of water pollution.
This book is written from materials science
perspective and not from the bio-treatment
point of view. The strength of this book lies in
covering a wide range of nanomaterials (e.g.
magnetic nanoparticles, cellulose nanofibers,
carbon nanotubes, silver-impregnated
cyclodextrin nanocomposites, nanostructured
iron-zeolites, carbo-iron nanomaterials,
photocatalytic titania nanoparticles,
nanofiltration membranes and functionalized
silica nanoparticles), clearly elucidating the
science behind their specific applications and
including ecological risk assessment at the
end. These 10 chapters are primarily based
on literature review and not just on authors
own research work. This book will be a useful
reference for scientists working in the same
field. Dey has worked as a research scientist
in colloid/polymer science, advanced materials
and nanotechnology. No index is provided.
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BUILDING CONSTRUCTION
TH880 9783037856581
Green technologies for sustainable & innovation
in materials; select papers.
International Materials Technology Conference
& Exhibition (8th: 2012: Petaling Jaya,
Malaysia) Ed. by M.K. Harun, M.Z.A. Yahya, S.
Abdullah and C.H. Chan. (Advanced materials
research; v.686)
Trans Tech Publications, 2013 356 p.
$207.00 (pa)
The Institute of Materials Malaysia has been
organizing the biennial conference since 1990,
and over 300 papers were presented at its
2012 incarnation. Of those, 46 were selected
for publication in the proceedings. They cover
nanomaterials and green technology; polymer,
composite, and advanced materials; metals
and alloys; corrosion and coating technology;
ceramic materials; and material processing
and technology. Among specific topics are
the effect of milling time on the production of
herbal nanopowders, flow behavior in the resin
infusion of a glass-fiber-reinforced polymer
wind turbine blade, mechanical properties of
chitosan-modified montmorillinite-filled tapioca
starch nanocomposite films, fabricating and
characterizing ceramic membrane by a gelcast technique for filtering water, and zerovalent iron supported by nano-clay as an
efficient adsorbent material for arsenic.
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING &
MACHINERY
TJ181 9781119953456
Handbook of compliant mechanisms.
Title main entry. Ed. by Larry L. Howell,
Spencer P. Magleby, and Brian M. Olsen.
Wiley, 2013 324 p. $125.00
Compliant mechanisms bend to achieve
their purpose. Designers and engineers have
compiled this reference to help colleagues
and students understand the principles of
compliant mechanisms and see examples
to they can design their own products.
After introductory chapters and sections
on modeling and synthesis, they provide
a library of compliant mechanisms. The
topics include analyzing flexure mechanisms
in the intermediate displacement range,
using pseudo-rigid body models, synthesis
through topology optimization, elements of
mechanisms, and example application.
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ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING,
ELECTRONICS, NUCLEAR ENGINEERING
TK454 9781118451144
Fundamental elements of applied
superconductivity in electrical engineering.
Wang, Yinshun.
Wiley, 2013 444 p. $149.95
Wang (alternative electrical power systems
with renewable energy sources, North China
Electric Power U., Beijing) presents a textbook
for graduate or undergraduate students of
electrical engineering, and a reference for
researchers and practitioners. He introduces
the basic theory of superconductivity and
material characteristics, circuitry design, and
other matters that influence its application.
Among the topics are mechanical properties
and anisotropy of superconducting materials,
alternative current losses, fabricating
technologies of practical superconducting
materials, cryogenic insulating materials and
performances, and the basic structure and
principles of superconducting apparatus in a
power system.
TK1007 9781439879368
Structure preserving energy functions in power
systems; theory and applications.
Padiyar, K. R.
CRC Press, 2013 358 p. $149.95
Structure preserving energy functions (SPEF)
is an approach to monitoring an electrical
grid that is proving more reliable and easier
to calculate than the direct methods used
in the transient energy function approach.
Padiyar (emeritus, electrical engineering,
Indian Institute of Science-Bangalore)
presents some analytical techniques based on
SPEF for identifying problems and correcting
them. His topics include direct methods for
evaluating the transient stability of systems
with simplified models, SPEF for systems with
detailed generator and load models, detecting
instability based on identifying critical cutsets,
sensitivity analysis for dynamic security and
prevention control using damping controllers
based on a flexible alternating-current
transmission system (FACTS), and applying
FACTS controllers for emergency control.
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